I took my 2 kids, age 1 and 3. At the beginning we waited to get into the movie in a holding area, several people pushed by us and we had to wait for the next movie, the person working did nothing.
The movie was not good for small kids. Mine were scared and my 1 year old cried the whole time. I wish we could have skipped it.
The displays were nice but nothing unique. My 3 year old was excited to se the "big shark" that they had in the picture but the sharks were only about a foot long?!? There was a petting area but older kids and even a adults were pushing my little kids around. Again, the person working didn't care and being the one to encourage everyone to take turns was exhausting so we didn't spend much time at the exhibit that would have been interesting to my kids. The rest was just fish. We could see the same thing at a seafood restaurant or someone's home.
It is a series of ordinary aquariums. They are well organized. There is information available on each on a computer touchscreen, these were too high for my kids to reach. Everything that we saw was very clean.
I stretched it out as long as I could and it barely took 45 min.
You have to exit through the gift shop which I understand but is difficult with little kids not only because I have to explain why we can't buy everything but because it is cluttered and difficult to get through.
I got a season pass since we are local. Supposedly there are bring a friend days and special exhibits that are only for season pass holders but I wasn't able to get info on either of those benefits online or at the aquarium. We have only gone once, I've offered it to my older child several times and she says it was "not fun" and she would rather go to the (free) play area at the mall.
For me, with small kids, this was not worth the money at all. We did not enjoy it.